The Rise of Italy’s Neo-Ghettos
Italy’s urban camps for segregating the Roma minority have received much critical attention recently, yet few attempts have been made to explore how they have evolved historically and function as systems of social control from a theoretical point of view. This article seeks to fill that gap, drawing on Wacquant’s framework for identifying constituent elements of ghettos past and present. It explores whether a genealogy can be traced between the early modern Jewish ghetto and today’s camps, focusing on the Italian capital, Rome. It suggests that many of the original ghetto’s functions operate in contemporary camps; however, it also argues that a crucial feature of the ghetto—its ability to strengthen solidarity within the segregated community—is being strategically undermined. The camps can thus be defined as neo-ghettos, rooted in the past but refined in the present and functional to their specific contemporary social and political context.
Quelle: http://juh.sagepub.com/cgi/content/abstract/41/3/368?rss=1
The New Orleans Lakefront: Nostalgia and the Fate of New Urbanism
Situated on a crescent-shaped swath of largely swampy land between the Mississippi River and Lake Pontchartrain, the city of New Orleans has limited ability to expand its geographical boundaries. New Orleanians’ efforts to expand and develop the Milneberg area of its northern edge began at the end of the eighteenth century but did not reach full realization until the middle of the twentieth century. Though established as a destination for the traveling elite, the area quickly transitioned into a wide-open community with recreational opportunities for all strata of New Orleans society. By the middle of the twentieth century, governmental and private developers worked together to create an amusement park, four mixed-income neighborhoods, numerous institutional properties, and public parks on the new lakefront. The history of this development traces the interplay of public and private forces on decisions of land use and urban planning.
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Where Houston Met Hollywood: Giant, Glenn McCarthy, and the Construction of a Modern City
In trying to understand why one of the United States’ biggest cities has been overlooked in scholarship, this article argues that the mass media has helped to obscure Houstonians’ own narratives of their city. This article looks closely at the opening of the Shamrock Hotel in Houston in 1949 and the release of the film Giant (1956), which fictionalizes that event. This case study shows how Giant constructed the city as an anti-modern space, overshadowing the discourse proposed by Glenn McCarthy and the Shamrock, which promoted Houston as a modern city. This article also analyzes Houstonians’ responses to Giant: Reviews were largely enthusiastic, but the perspective from Houston also allowed viewers to see some of the film’s weaknesses more clearly.
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Selling Atlanta: Black Mayoral Politics from Protest to Entrepreneurism, 1973 to 1990
Situated at the intersection between histories of urban politics, civil rights, and the rise of neoliberalism, this article explores the changing dynamics of mayoral politics in Atlanta, Georgia, during the first two decades of black governance. In particular, it charts the efforts of Atlanta’s first two black mayors, Maynard Jackson and Andrew Young, to negotiate the changing economic, political, and social climate of the 1970s and 1980s. Compelled to abandon a pro-labor, community control politics in favor of policies favoring Atlanta’s tourism industry, Atlanta’s mayors worked to craft a new liberal politics that appealed to the city’s diverse electorate, investors, and other outside spectators. In doing so, they relied on and appropriated the city’s civil rights legacy to help them forge new alliances—as well as rebuild old ones—and provided an example for liberal politicians across the country.
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Sardinero and Not a Can of Sardines: Soccer and Spanish Ethnic Identities in New York City during the 1920s
Spaniards in New York City during the 1920s used soccer to create and maintain multiple notions of identities centered on supra-national, national, and regional affiliations. Success on the field against other teams demonstrated the talent and strength of not just those from Spain but also immigrants from the rest of the Spanish-speaking world. The sport also generated networks that reinforced a Spanish national identity by connecting New Yorkers to similar communities both in the United States and overseas. The establishment of voluntary and sporting organizations based on region of origin within Spain weakened other broader notions of collective identification. The expression of these multiple identities through sport fuelled rivalries and subverted attempts to create a singular ethnic identity. By the end of the decade, the result within the Spanish colony was not unification, as many had hoped, but rather fragmentation into competing institutions.
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„A Town Should Be Built to Make the Whole Thing Work“: Modeling Patterson, City Beautiful of California’s Central Valley
Patterson Colony, an agricultural town built out at the height of the City Beautiful era, exhibits that movement’s distinctive monumental geometries writ small, imitative of Washington, D.C., and jarringly unlike its grid-bound neighbors in California’s Central Valley. The story of Patterson’s street plan sheds light on an unfamiliar site and scale of comprehensive planning, and shows how the beautifiers’ rhetorics could be recoded and harnessed to a speculative real-estate venture. In Patterson we see these tropes—"order" in particular—taking on complex valences that are at once aesthetic and technical, revising any hard-and-fast distinction between City Beautiful and City Practical imaginaries. This history, finally, allows us to rethink how replicable urban forms travel, and to specify the meanings, uses, and predicates of self-appointed "model" towns—a designation that has been attached, sometimes incautiously, to countless episodes in the evolution of the American city and suburb.
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Nationalism and the rule of law: lessons from the Balkans and beyond
10.1080/00905992.2015.1014194
Dejan Guzina
Dejan Guzina
Quelle: http://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/00905992.2015.1014194?ai=z4&mi=3fqos0&af=R
German Election Forecasting: Comparing and Combining Methods for 2013
10.1080/09644008.2015.1024240
Andreas Graefe
Andreas Graefe
Quelle: http://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/09644008.2015.1024240?ai=z4&mi=3fqos0&af=R